• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2018-08-31 00:00:00

Flexible Unidirectional (UD) composite laminates are commonly being used for ballistic-resistant body armor. These laminates comprise UD layers, each constructed by laminating thin layers of...

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• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2019-09-09 00:00:00

Traditionally, soft body armor has been made from materials such as poly(p-phenylene terephthalamide) (PPTA) and ultra-high molar mass polyethylene (UHMMPE). However, to diversify the fiber...

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• Organization: Department of Homeland Security
• Updated: 2025-09-08T15:34:36-04:00

This dataset details how OFTP developed an acquisition strategy to establish a long-term contract to meet ICE leadership’s four-year goal to transition the armed workforce to body armor with...

• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2011-02-14 00:00:00

The performance standard for ballistic-resistant body armor published by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), NIJ Standard 0101.06, recommends estimating the perforation performance of body...

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• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2019-10-10 00:00:00

To improve the reliability and design of armor, it is imperative to understand the failure modes and the degradation rates of the materials used in armor. Despite the best efforts of...

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• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2012-05-31 00:00:00

We present correlations found between the tensile strengths of yarns extracted from armor and the V50 ballistic limit when significant degradation of the mechanical properties of the extracted...

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• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2021-08-02 00:00:00

This dataset contains mechanical testing data at two different loading rates for two different aging conditions (wet and dry at 70 °C) for five different extraction time points for ultra high...

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• Organization: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
• Updated: 2025-09-06

An anti-material projectile which fragments wholly or in part due to impact shock on hitting a target thereafter penetrating the target causing damage. The projectile is preferably high density...

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• Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology
• Updated: 2022-12-15 00:00:00

Projectile velocity data, from tests using the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) body armor standard (NIJ-0101.06) test threats, collected over a numbers of years at the NIST ballistics...

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• Organization: Department of Justice
• Updated: 2006-03-30T00:00:00

The study was a comprehensive analysis of felonious killings of officers. The purposes of the study were (1) to analyze the nature and circumstances of incidents of felonious police killings ...

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